Yeah, I know. 
I’m Dwala Gwinnette Wishon. Dwala is rarely read correctly, and I hate the pronounciation it’s given. This is my first post at StraightDope; maybe if I announce now that I’m dway • la, not dwah • la, it will settle in your minds…
My middle name stems from my father driving through Gwinnett, GA on his way back from the Red Hat Poultry Plant on the day of my birth.
Wishon is pronounced wish•on.
I have:[ul] • a name nobody can pronounce,
• a name after a place I wouldn’t visit,
• and a name that incites gleeful jokes first graders originally made me aware of.[/ul]Maybe this is the true reason why I’m single.
That, and I’d never date a man named Paul.
Hey, guys, slight hijack! Just want to welcome my bud, dwala!
Tracy is my girlfriend’s given name, and i love it! i would absolutely love it if she would allow me to call her this. Instead, she insists that i call her Kale (rhymes with “sail”, a name which she made up for herself because she felt that Tracy didn’t suit her… <sigh> Kale is just so choppy and short. i dated a John before her. i like longer names, at least 2 syllables. my next SO will have a more flowing name. i have my eye on a Jose 
My name is Nicole Belanger, and even I can’t prounounce my last name correctly. .:throws up her arms and walks away:.
Kara? Kora? Oh I’m sure you’d find something every once in a while, it’s bound to happen. Try Elvira.
Kitty
See - if your name was more common I wouldnt know you are the dwala from SAAN
dodgy
the loony* from SAAN
Nacho and Serendipity:
Close…it’s Elizabeth Geller.
(offtopic) Hi loony! Are we everywhere?! (/offtopic)
As many times as you find Sterling (which I personally love, btw 
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I can look across the room right now and see a Kara (my daughter). I have yet to find a single person who ever pronounces her name correctly the first time. Her name is pronounced like (care-uh). Everybody try to pronounce it (car-uh) or (care-ee) or other derivatives.
I have no room to talk though. My first name is Dana. I have been called Diana, Deanna, Dara, and the like. I have probably met a half dozen people in my life with my same first name, and they have always been men. Why did my mother give me a boys name?
I have never dumped anybody because of their name. But I once dated a guy named Brent who insisted on being called Tony (Anthony was his middle name).
I’ve never dated anyone with strange names, unles you count Fortenberry. Of course, if we’d wed, she’d not have that.
A friend of mine’s name is Young. I told him he needs to name his first born son Les B. Young.
My girlfriend won’t let me name our first born son Roy Elroy. Last name? McElroy
Instead, he’ll be named David (after my uncle) Alan (after my uncle also, but with my spelling.) That makes his initials, DAM. And if he is to be anything like me, he’ll love it in 3rd grade.
By the way, my girlfriend is not pregnant at this time.
I had a friend in High School whose last name was Woody. His first name was Ron so that wasn’t too bad but his poor little brother was Richard. Cruel parents. ALthough When Ron Graduated he signed up for the military. I think I teased him for weeks about working his way up the ranks, from a private Woody, to, someday, a Major Woody. I know it’s Juvenile, but it still makes me laugh.
I forgot, my friends name is Jaime. Pronounced Jay-me. her middle name is Noelle. She was born on Christmas day so her parents thought that name would be funny. In french, j’aime Noelle means I love Christmas.
i can’t believe i forgot this! my roommate is really self-conscious whenever anyone says her full name aloud: Amanda Rabe. She says it’s like one of those Bart Simpson gags-- “Has anyone seen Amanda Rabe? I need Amanda Rabe!” 
In highschool, I knew two girls with odd first names: Princess and Kirby.
LOL I want that name!!! That s soooo cool!!!
who doesnt need Amana Rabe?
You think Tracy’s bad. Try Van Scoyoc! Did you know that all the consonants sound just like other letters over the phone, so I always have to say “VAN SCOYOC. Shall I spell it for you?. V as in Victor. A. N as in Nancy. C as in Cat. O. Y. O. C as in cat”. Arrrghhh! it gets to be a nuisance.
I knew a Peter Michael Stravino in middle school. I don’t know why his parents would do something like that; they must have not thought about initials at all, which seems pretty damn hard to do, but whatever. We weren’t really the best of friends anyway
Reading this thread, I kept trying to think of someone I had dated that might have had a strange name. The best I can come up with is Paige Jereé Gross. I actually liked her name, Paige, anyway, and we only broke up because, after a year, the long distance thing finally got old (this was in the college years). Though we did get back together every time I went to Cincinnati…anyway.
My best friend only seemed to date Jenny’s in HS. Very odd. It’s not that he broke up with other girls, he just never dated anyone not named Jenny.
Off the OP, but on the name topic, a friend of mine, the oldest of 6 boys, was named Jon Smith. His younger brothers were: Chris, Jeff, Andy…and that’s all I knew. But yeah, Jon Smith.
Since people were talking about personal name problems, I think I’m in the clear with [shedding anonymity] Eric, though you’d be surprised how many people try to spell it Erik, Erick or some silly thing. Simple four-letter middle name, too. [/regaining some anonymity] I’m not even going to go into the screw-ups on my four letter last name (since it was already addressed here).
If it weren’t for my confirmation name (6 letters), I’d be completely represented by four-letter-words! :eek:
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What was the other 1/4 of them called?